Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 78
“I’ll swing before I go in there,” replied Starkey doggedly, and again he had the support of the crew.
Who acts: Starkey · What happens: swing, go in, reply, have, support · To what, where: support, crew · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Starkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 swing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 swing | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swing | aux |
| 4 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swing | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 swing | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Starkey | Starkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | doggedly | doggedly | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 had | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 support | det |
| 21 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 crew | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 crew | det |
| 24 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 support | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing in a quote | future | Starkey | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | go in in a quote | present | Starkey | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Starkey | doggedly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Starkey | the support of the crew | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Patient | |||
| 5 | support | the crew | nom support «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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